{"id":1571,"date":"2008-07-21T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-17T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T02:44:07","slug":"burn-the-flutes-and-nevermore-deploy-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/burn-the-flutes-and-nevermore-deploy-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Melt the Flutes and Never More Desire Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KF5vlT01JNc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I joked in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/07\/17\/rock-town-hall-s-fair-shake-era-launches#c18203\">previous thread<\/a> that the <strong>flute<\/strong> has no place in music.  Well kinda joked.  With the exception of <strong>&#8220;Moondance&#8221;<\/strong>, I can&#8217;t think of an instance of the <ins><strong>Rock Flute<\/strong><\/ins> that didn&#8217;t make me reach for the dial.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you, individually and\/or collectively, to offer up 10 great rock songs that feature a flute.  I&#8217;ll be the judge and jury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not including <em>Moondance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The flute must be relatively prominent and integral. Don&#8217;t split hairs, you know what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>I flippantly said &#8220;music,&#8221; but for this challenge I&#8217;m limiting you to <strong>rock songs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>No more than 2 songs by a given artist.  I confess that there might be other Van Morrison songs that I&#8217;m unaware of.  (BTW: Van Morrison is the exception to another one of my rock laws.  Stay tuned.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mellotrons<\/strong>, and other devices, that sound like flutes don&#8217;t count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Tip:<\/em> Don&#8217;t even try any <strong>Tull<\/strong>.  DOA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joked in a previous thread that the flute has no place in music. Well kinda joked. With the exception of &#8220;Moondance&#8221;, I can&#8217;t think of an instance of the Rock Flute that didn&#8217;t make me reach for the dial. I invite you, individually and\/or collectively, to offer up 10 great rock songs that feature <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/burn-the-flutes-and-nevermore-deploy-the\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}